The first table below looks at the demand for LoadRunner skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LoadRunner over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP LoadRunner
Rank 92 68 62
Rank change year-on-year
-24 -6
Permanent jobs citing LoadRunner 3 6 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.256% 0.708% 2.259%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.316% 4.478% 13.66%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 21
Average salary - £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Development Applications
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
228 134 161
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 19.47% 15.80% 16.53%
Number of salaries quoted 102 96 120
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% -3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £31,950 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
LoadRunner
Scotland

LoadRunner
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing LoadRunner across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Glasgow LoadRunner Jobs Demand Trend

LoadRunner
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LoadRunner across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow LoadRunner Salary Trend

LoadRunner
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing LoadRunner also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LoadRunner.

1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) J2EE
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
1 10 (100.00%) JUnit
1 10 (100.00%) ETL
1 10 (100.00%) HP
1 10 (100.00%) Informatica
1 10 (100.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 10 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 10 (100.00%) Banking
1 10 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 9 (90.00%) Performance Testing
2 9 (90.00%) Reference Data
2 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (90.00%) Software Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (50.00%) Finance
5 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 2 (20.00%) Hedge funds

LoadRunner
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing LoadRunner also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LoadRunner. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) J2EE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) JUnit
1 10 (100.00%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 10 (100.00%) Banking
1 10 (100.00%) Investment Banking
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (20.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) ETL
1 10 (100.00%) Benchmarking
2 9 (90.00%) Performance Testing
2 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (90.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
1 10 (100.00%) HP
1 10 (100.00%) Informatica
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Posted: 21 May 2013